This is the police! Pull over to the side of the road and exit your vehicle!
— The police in the first game
Redline Rumble is a series of Web Games of the racing genre developped by Richard Smith for the Adobe Shockwave plugin.The series is composed of four entries:
- Redline Rumble (2003): The original opus, in which you compete in illegal races on an freeway. If you win a race, you also win your opponent's car. But watch out, the police will sometimes kick in and try to impound your vehicle!
- Redline Rumble 2: Detonator (2004): The player, who won the Redline Rumble competition, is held captive by a twisted rich man known as the "Sinister Spectator" and is forced to race a bomb-rigged vehicle in the Detonator Death Trials.
- Redline Rumble 3 (2007): Unlike the previous two games, this opus instead focus on missions with various objectives. Depending on the mission, you either play as part of the Mafia or as the police.
- Redline Rumble 4: IgNitro City (2009): The final entry of the series, you race in an open-ended city, challenging various vehicles in order to win them.
The Redline Rumble series provides examples of:
- Added Alliterative Appeal: Redline Rumble.
- And Your Reward Is Clothes: In Revolution, beating the best time against one of your opponents unlocks new paintjobs for that car.
- Bald of Evil: The Sinister Spectator from 2.
- Bland-Name Product: The cars in the series are based on real models, such as the ADP Sturm in the first game being a 1st generation Ford Focus.
- Cool Car: There were a lot of them you could drive throughout the series!
- Darker and Edgier: Let's just say people that enjoyed the first game weren't prepared for such a tone shift with Redline Rumble 2...
- Averted with 3 and 4, which are games that are more close to the first entry than the second in term of ambiance.
- Police Are Useless: In the first game of the series, you can avoid the police by simply hiding under a truck.
- Strapped to a Bomb: The premise of Redline Rumble 2.
- What the Hell, Player?: Rix (the owner of the repair truck in the third game's final mission) calls you out whenever you toss or squash one of your buddies' car instead of a police car, like you're supposed to do.Rix: What are you doing?! You smashed your buddy!
- Video Game Remake: Redline Rumble Revolution, a remake of the first game, brought to you by the folks at Xform, which also made Candy Moutain Massacre Revenge, another sequel/remake of an older Shockwave-based game.
Where did he go? I think we've lost him!
